Mead sees two important states of matter: coherent and incoherent. Before lasers there wasn't a lot of coherent to be so easily observed.
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He sees semiconductor tunneling as an intelligible wave phenomenon, resembling on the microcosmic level the movement of radio waves through walls. interview
See also Pilot Waves